I ask you!when he turns down the Fat and Skinnies?"

As the old face grew more and more haggard, and the old hands more and more skinny and claw-like, and the traces of intellect and thought more and more faded away from the features, the horror deepened, until Mercy feared that her own brain must be giving way.

It was Skinny McCord.

But even still Westy didn't speak to me, only he said to Skinny, "Here's a real patrol leader come to see youthat's a big honor, that is, and he just made you the full salute.

And I could see that all he cared about was amusing Skinny.

"Pretty soon he heard Jake's boat coming up the river and saw the light and he just waited there and when Jake come up alongside the float, the first thing Skinny heard him say was, Roy Blakeley is deaddidn't you, Skinny?"

"Skinny was the one who did it," he said.

Before I was a scout I used to call him Wash-board, because he was so skinny you could have used his ribs for a wash-board.

Once Skinny's father hit him on the head and it made him queer like.

Sometimes Skinny sold papers at the station, but he was always scared of people, especially rich fellows.

And he stayed all day with Skinny and the doctor says, he says Skinny has got to die, but anyway Westy stayed all day with himthat's what he did.

"I got on the trailI mean Skinny's trail.

After two or three nights he brought Skinny to meeting, and oh, cracky, but that kid looked bad.

Then I started straightening Skinny's suit and telling him how swell he looked and how he must always take off his hat to ladies.

Of course, we were both thinking about Skinny, but neither one of us would say it.

Pretty soon the Elks came along and Skinny was with them.

All the while I kept wondering if Skinny really thought that axe was his very own like he said.

Then I went up to him and I saidI didn't care for the doctor or anybodyI said, "Skinny, there's one fellow here who knows what the marshes are and that's me.

So I went down and pretty soon the doctor went up to see Skinny and Doc Carson went too.

" "Maybe Skinny was looking at the book and shut it with the two dollar bill inside," I said.

I'd trust Skinny with a hundred dollars, I would, and Westy too, but gentle breezesNix.

It has often been said that Macbeth approaches the nearest of all Shakespeare's tragedies to the antique model: and in nothing is the resemblance clearer than in the employment of the Witches to point their skinny fingers into the fated future.

She's skinnier than I ever imagined it possible for anybodyanybodyto be.

" Carroll smiled genially at the skinny young chap who bustled forward importantly, proud of his temporary spotlight position.

A skinnier lot than SOL has hung Ne'er skimmed the moor or thronged the heather; But for dull plumage, shrivelled crop, Look at the Opposition shop!